What if the application in which you were working has crashed, and your precious document has been lost? This could be a question without an answer, if you cannot read the information saved by the Windows OS in your PC’s RAM.

Also known as memory address space, this is where all the applications that run on your computer load there content for further use by the operating system. In case you cannot read its content, you won’t be able to recover your lost data. But with DumpIt, this is actually possible. All you have to do is to double-click this executable and this tiny utility will generate a copy of your PC’s physical memory in the current directory.

This copy is nothing else but a huge binary file which has to be read with a hex editor in order to be able to identify the content of your lost document. Free Hex Editor Neo can be a good choice to cover all this file. All you have to do is launch the program, access the Search function and type a word or phrase from the lost document. For Microsoft Word users, check the Unicode string option and search again. In this way the program will locate immediately the Word file.

DumpIt is free to use and it has been developed as a fusion of win32dd and win64dd (former products with the same functionality developed by the MoonSols company) in one executable. It has only 203 KB of memory, a portable character, and its easy to use. There are rarely occasions when you will actually use this program, but its unique utility makes it a must-have tool when such a disaster strikes.